The Marxist Criticism and Frankfurt School seminar will be held on Saturday, 30 January 2016, in 19 George Square.
Time | Event |
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0900 - 0930 | Welcome with tea & coffee |
0930 - 1100 | Introductory lecture • Historical Materialism and the Literary Imagination • The Politics of the Literary Text • The Role of the Critic |
1100 - 1130 | Coffee break |
1130 - 1300 | Key concepts and texts What does Culture do? Culture and Economics • Discussion of Core Reading and Questions • Participant Group Presentation • New Directions Presentation (San Martin): ‘Necessity and agency in historical materialism’ • Individual presentations on research followed by group discussion |
1300 - 1400 | Lunch |
1400 - 1500 | Key concepts and texts Where’s your Ideology? Ideology and Imagination • Discussion of Core Reading and Questions • Participant Group Presentation • New Directions Presentation (Di Sotto): ‘Seeing, knowing, acting: the place of trauma in neoliberal ideology’ • Individual presentations on research followed by group discussion |
1500 - 1530 | Coffee break |
1530 - 1700 | Key concepts and texts When is Utopia? Utopia and Revolution • Discussion of Core Reading and Questions • Participant Group Presentation • New Directions Presentation (Leveque): ‘Aesthetics, Intellectuals, and Elites: the “Corporatism of the Universal” for writers and readers.’ • Individual presentations on research followed by group discussion |
1700 - 1730 | Summary discussion and feedback |